The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-17

GU pun pOoC Was
TO DELUGE THE CITY IN BLOOD
OF the property owning classes, first de-
stroying the police and militia, who
were derided as their special cham
fpionS. The period of confusion de-
veloping from the mammoth strikes of
the first of May, 1886, was definitely
announced months before as the time
when the fearful bolt should fall.
F1ClIeGS as was this programme and
difficult as belief is that it ever was
contemplated by men, the facts as
stated were abundantly proven in
court.
The diabOlism was fully shared in by
women. Especially so was this the
case in the
like the red flag professions of raga-
mullins with torches that attempted at
night to enter the magnificent new
Board of Trade when the dedi-
cation festivities of the insti-
tuition had for the time being trans
formed the huge building into
scene of social brilliancy without a
pheming intruders of both sexes were
sternly forced back at the muZZles of
three dozen police revolvers. In af-
fairs like this the dusky wife of Par
sons and other no less desperate wo-
men seemed in their proper element
vi IuS many Olu6I queer outbreaks
preceding the Haymarket tragedy, the
most startling at the time, perhaps,
was the parade Thanksgiving Day,
when in ridicule of President Cleve-
lands proclamation nearly thousand
uncouth men and women of the slums,
headed by banners of black and red,
traversed the choicest residence ave-
nues wildly yelling and scofing at the
| WelI-dreSSed people who crowded to
the windows, anxious to learn the
cause of the tumult.
The city authorities affected for some
reason to ignore all ebullitiOns of the
mob. AS a result of this
OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE,
when the time came at last for the
eight hour labor disturbances and the
simultaneous Inauguration of the Sc
cretly cherished revolution" the an
archists were power indeed, and the
police were ignorant Of danger. 1t is
true that the Chicago papers contained
timely intimatiOns of the plots, but
owing to the peculiar attitude of the
high municipal authorities, the articles
were treated as rank sensationalism.
Just one day before the time set for
the strikes, Louis Lingg, the bomb
maker, slipped into his lodgings
heavy, suspiciOus-loOking Dox, three
feet in length. The box contained
large invoice of dynamite. Its deliv-
cry at IlnggS lodgings was the hrSC
immediate preparation for
THE BLOODY RESULT
of five days later. For many weeks
previous Lingg had been purchasing
and experimenting with dynamite as
the paid agent of one of the seven In
ternational groups" but subsequent
events showed beyond any reasonable
doubt that this particular explosive
made the bomb that was heard around
Etn TfNryh NHn II
others manufactured by Lingg under
the auspices of the international As
ISOLATION, which furnished the money,
and of which the celebrated defendants
were not members, simply, but leaders.
Next day, May 1st, the eight-hour
strikes began in earnest, and by night
fall when the first intelligent estimates
the streets idle. Promptly in
the morning, Sunday, when the
churches throughout the city we're re-
sounding with swelling hosannas, the
stuffy little Bohemian hall, on Emma
street, was crowded with members of
THE LEHR AND WEIR VEREIN,
an inner circle of the omnipresent Inter
national. Detailed plans for the near
at-hand conflict with the police were
submitted by Editor Engel and listen
ed to by Spies, Lieutenant, Fischer.
These plans were the ones followed al
most to the letter at the Haymarket,
but the decision to do so was not reach
ed at this meeting. Instead it was de-
termined to take action at another
gathering of the Lehr and Weir in a
larger hall and more central location,
to be assembled within twenty-four
hours. This was to be in Grief'S Hall,
Monday night, May 8.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, of which Spies
and SchWab were the editors and man
| fnRnfhnF armed
who were to engage in this
SPECIFIC COMPACT TO MURDER.
The Sunday evening edition, pub
lished a few hours after the Bohemian
Hall meeting, contained the cabalistic
legend: ''Y-Komme Montag Abend."
| Y-COme Monday night. This was
the summons to the armed sections to
meet, as they did Monday night at
Greif'S. The call was again published
Monday afternoon Indicating the i'm
portance of the matter to come before
the meeting. The Sunday issue of the
Arbeiter had a significant article
urging 'quick and immediate action, p"
adding: by Monday or Tuesday the
conflict must have reached its highest
intensity, else success will then be
doubtful" Almost before the ink of
this could dry, Spies was at the Sunday
afternoon meeting of the Central Labor
Union arranging to have himself dis
patched to McCormick's factory the
following day to address the thousands
of strikers out along the old Black
Road.
From the top of the freight car. on
. the prairie near McCormick's, next af-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS belched into
the ears OF $4,000 excited strikers,
mostly foreigners, the hottest harangue
ever uttered by him in public. He
spoke in the German language, of
which he is more master even than of
English. The effect of his words was
like magic.
ION TO M'CoRAnCK'sl"
was the cry. The maddened horde,
urged forward by Spies, Lingg and
other daring anarchists present, rush
ed at the great factory like so many
wild beasts. They had caught up
powders and clubs on the way, and in
an instant the thousand windows of the
factory were being shivered in count
less fragments. Then it was that pa
troll wagons, loaded with police, the
horses covered with foam. dashed
through the crowd from behind. 1t is
, admitted by Spies that he ordered the
mob, many of whom were fiourishing
J reVolVerS, to resist the attempt
of the police to quen the riot. OF
course the victors were the police, but
that to Spies, according to his own &C
counts, was not main cOncorn. Inc
I blood of working men had been drawn,
; and when he satisfied himself that
such a result was produced, the an
; archist leader coOlly withdrew, though
the battle was at its height.
!; Taking a street car direct to the Ar
better Zeitung Office, Spies, after hur-
ried consultation with SchWab, Neebe
and others, decided to call the Hay
y market masS-meeting, and then wrote
, THE INFAMOUS REVENGE CIRCULAR
u Twenty-Five hundred copies were is
= sued as quickly as printers could work
II and everything was now ripe for the
u murder compact meeting that night il
IL Greif's basement, the same that haC
been called by the Arbeiter Zeitun,
. that day and the day before. In thi
le connection the exact wording of tn
circular, especially the later portion
foreshading the slaughter of the MOI
l. row, the fatal 4th Of May, pOssesse
IS peculiar interest. Spies wrote: